Overview

A quarterly update on the Auckland’s economic context. The lead article focuses on Auckland’s productivity – the drivers, barriers and local policy choices that can help boost it.

Boosting Auckland's productivity

Drivers, barriers, and policy directions for impact

Local policy choices can help boost Auckland's productivity.

Three directions stand out.

• Enabling more productive use of urban land – to support more homes near jobs, transport, and services
• Using infrastructure pricing – to ease peak demand and support growth in efficient places
• Prioritising spending to deliver the most value – through greater use of cost-benefit analysis

Quarter 1 and quarter 2, 2025

See also

Auckland Council Chief Economist Unit

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